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"You have your new body. What more do you want?""You know what I want. You said you'd refund half the money I paid for this body if I delivered you Bakura. I've done that, so now I'd like what you promised me."

He also made a deal with Molierre Cundertol, Prime Minister of the planetBakura. Keeping his true origins secret, he promised to supply Cundertol with a new droid body—enabling him to live forever—if the Prime Minister would surrender Bakura. E'thinaa also agreed to provide him with half the money Cundertol had paid for the droid body. The Yuuzhan Vong then enabled him to transfer his essence into the droid through a Ssi-ruuk process known as entechment. The process went as planned, and soon after, the Ssi-ruuk launched an attack on Bakura. As E'thinaa had expected, the Keeramak was killed. The Ssi-ruuk were forced to flee, and Cundertol, now in a droid body, met up with E'thinaa in a space station at the edge of Ssi-ruu space.[1]

There, E'thinaa chastised Cundertol for wanting to know why the General wanted the Keeramak dead and refused to pay the man the money he had promised him, claiming that Cundertol had not fulfilled the bargain. When an irate Cundertol protested, E'thinaa offered the former Prime Minister the chance to fight for it. Cundertol accepted, only to have E'thinaa activate a restraining bolt that froze Cundertol's droid body. The General then revealed his true origins to his horror-stricken foe. Other Yuuzhan Vong flooded into the room and began beating Cundertol with amphistaffs until he died.[1]

E'thinaa served his species, working to weaken potential foes and enable the Yuuzhan Vong's conquest of the galaxy. He kept his true identity a secret and manipulated Molierre Cundertol into surrendering Bakura. When Cundertol protested that he was being treated unfairly, E'thinaa mocked him, and was amused when the man agreed to fight him. Like all his people, E'thinaa considered Humans to be a lesser species and their droids to be abominations. He felt that Cundertol, in a droid body, was unworthy of slavery or an honorable death in a sacrifice.[1]